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Monday, April 17, 2006

MySpace does 1.5 billion page views per day!

MySpace does 1.5 billion page views per day using ASP.NET 2.0. They just switched from ColdFusion, a Java based technology, and their server load went down dramatically. Of course it's not surprising that switching from Java would make your app run faster, but what makes this so ironic is that they're still largely using ColdFusion, but using a .NET-based reimplementation called BlueDragon. So, a .NET-based reimplementation of ColdFusion runs dramatically faster than the original Java-based implementation.

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That is very, very interesting to anyone who ever has to use CF. This whole time, I've been wondering why Charlie Arehart (sp?) et al. even bothered building BlueDragon, no one's gonna buy it, etc.

I guess I was completely wrong on that one. Kudos to them building a better CF than Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe.

∴ Joe Grossberg | 17-Apr-2006 11:03am est | http://www.joegrossberg.com | #9404

I'd the pleasure of poking around the source for both (that's a story I'm afraid I can't really go into for legal reasons, but it was really cool), but yeah, both the original Java BlueDragon and BD.NET are definitely superior to the original, bar a few bugs (one nasty one of definite note was that it had difficulties coping with <cfassociate> correctly). Charlie Arehart's a pretty decent guy to boot.

That's not really news to anybody developing in CF though.

∴ Keith Gaughan | 17-Apr-2006 11:13am est | http://talideon.com/ | #9405

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